How to Disable Auto-Complete for New Contacts in Gmail

The auto-complete feature is something that many users rely upon in any email program that offers it. This auto-complete list is usually generated from your contact list, but Gmail has a feature where it will automatically add anyone that you email to this list. This is helpful if you don’t always create contacts, even for people that you communicate with frequently.

But if you are emailing a lot and you meticulously manage your contact list, then those auto-complete suggestions can become an issue. Fortunately you will not need to figure out a way to navigate through them based on your own usage patterns. Rather you can simply turn off the auto-complete option so that Gmail will only offer the auto-complete option for people that you have manually added to your Gmail contacts.

How to Stop Gmail from Suggesting Every New Person I Email

The steps in this article are going to change a setting for Gmail when you access it through a Web browser like Google Chrome or Firefox. once you complete these steps, Google will no longer automatically add every new email recipient to your auto-complete list. You will need to manually create contacts to do that from now on.